Cave lynx | |
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Jaw bone fossil | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Felinae |
Genus: | Lynx |
Species: | |
Subspecies: |
†L. p. spelaeus
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Trinomial name | |
†Lynx pardinus spelaeus Boule, 1910
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The cave lynx or Mediterranean cave lynx (Lynx spelaeus or Lynx pardinus spelaeus) is an extinct felid species that lived during the Pleistocene. It is controversially discussed to be a subspecies of the modern Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) and to be a junior synonym of this species. [1]
Fossils have been found from the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Italy and France. [2] Body mass reconstructions estimate this lynx to weigh about 23 kg. [3]